Stephanie Beacham ‘raped at start of her career’

English actress Stephanie Beacham has said she was raped at the start of her career and the incident “screwed up” her life.

The Dynasty star said she was assaulted in the early 1970s but the rapist was not a fellow actor. She avoided rape several other times in her career but the damage caused meant she ended a relationship that could have turned into a marriage.

Beacham, 69, made her film debut in 1971’s The Nightcomers with Marlon Brando and later starred in Dynasty spin-off The Colbys as glamorous Sable Colby.